Brand New Blog! (im)properly polished

I'm really excited about this one. She's been following many of us for a while now and just a couple months ago she emailed me and we have become fast friends. I would like you all to meet Tamy  and her blog: (im)properly polished!

Tamy is just delightful and her frankening skills are something I am jealous of (She frankened Space Cadet NLTM people!!!)  Her photos are simply beautiful. (I get them via email often!)

Visit her brand new blog and if you like it, follow it. :)

http://improperlypolished.blogspot.com/


Welcome to the blogosphere Tamy!

Make up for older women

I found a new blog I like, so I thought I'd share it. :)
http://www.makeupforolderwomen.com/ 

What I like about it: She isn't about the "standard" make up beliefs about what colors older gals should/shouldn't wear. She's about teaching you how to use what you love in better ways.

Check out her Shiny or Matte Foundation video...what an eye opener!

So glad I found this blog...are there other's out there for us older gals that I can follow.. I got Evil Angel on my blog roll and I love her looks too. :)

Happy Birthday Ange-Marie!

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Scandalously Polished!
Happy Birthday to you!

Hope you have a fantastic day filled with holo polish and debauchery! ;)

~The Lizard

Babbling Brooke is celebrating her 2nd blogoversary! (and you can too!)

GREAT blog, 10 winners, HUGE prize pot...what more do you need? (oh! I know...fun "name that polish" games!) Head on over to enter by clicking on the picture!

Hurry! The giveaway will end on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 11:00 PM.

Tag - Sunshine Award

Arie at "Catch the Beauty with Arie" and Karin of "Romikas Nails" passed this lovely award on to me. Thank you ladies, we seem to be members of a "mutual admiration society" since I love your blogs too!

These are the rules:

1. Post the logo within your blog or post.
2. Pass the award on to several other bloggers.
3. Link the nominees within your post.
4. Let the nominees know they have received the award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to the person whom you have received this award from.


I pass this on to all the wonderful blogs I look at on a daily basis but I'll choose just a few. I am guessing the Nail Blogs are saturated, and I've seen this one floating around so the blogs I follow and would pass it to have gotten one...let me see where else should it go...


Witoxity
R3 Daily
Pretty Random
You've Got Nail
Emerald Sparkled
Nails Beautiqued
Wizards of Bling
and some non-nail related blogs that I get a little sunshine from:
Tropical Mind
Nouveau Cheap

Nailstah's first reader appreciation giveaway!

Lot's of great stuff here, including the Hello Kitty egg with stickers! :) :)  Ends April 12th, better click that picture now to enter!

Wizards of Bling 150+ follower giveaway

Flying Pug Monkeys were caught and their spoils are a giveaway. If the blog reaches 250 followers during the giveaway, more polish will be added! There are more photos of the haul on the blog. Giveaway ends on my favorite day of the year: the end of US Tax Season and the day before my 3 day weekend: April 15th. Click the picture to head on over and enter!

Magic-Maid Giveaway, good stuffs!

Another great giveaway from one of my favorite blogs. Magic Maid has a most excellent assortment of drug store lemmings and a surprise OPI and ChG
You'll WANT to enter this one! It ends April 25th so click the picture to head on over! Good Luck!

So Many Giveaways!

Goodness! March is turning out to be the Month of the Giveaways! Exciting stuff is happening in the nail blogosphere and I'm here to tell you all about it!

The list is long but stick with me and follow along:



All You Desire is having her celebration of, get this, 500, yes, 500, not 50, but 500 followers! And for that she is giving away these great gifts. Click the pic for more information and to enter! (ends April the 10th)

My girl Deniz over at Emerald Sparkled is having a great giveaway to celebrate hitting the 200 follower mark. Amazing, 200 followers. We sure do love our nail art and swatches, don't we? Deniz has put together a wonderful array of cool items, check out the Konad disk storage wallet, then click the pic for more information and to enter! (ends March 27th, 11:59 pm (GMT)

Over at the Nail Junkie, Lyra went a 'lil NUTZ when she put this prize package together, and I'm pretty excited about it, click the pic for more information and to enter. (ends 20th of March, 8pm Central European time)

Celebrating a Blog Birthday is Polishing the Nails and she's giving away a gorgeous selection of GOSH polish, click the pic for more information and to enter. Happy Birthday, Maria! (ends March 21 at Midnite)

Zuzu at Inside of My Purse is offering a crazy huge selection of items for her 250 followers - or blog posts? My translator isn't translating all of her blog so it's hard to tell, but click the pic for more information and to enter (ends April 23rd)

Laura at Sawan is helping THREE lucky winners get the new Claire's Mood Polish on their hands! Thanks Laura! Click the pic for more information and to enter. (ends March 28 at 5:00PM Central Time)

Tiffany over at Yardsticks for Lunatics is giving away a bunch of gorgeous Nyx items, including some pretty polish! Click the pic for more information and to enter. (ends March 15th)

Mary at Body Soul Beauty has bought into MARCH MADNESS with a greentastic bundle of color and fun, another huge giveaway for one lucky winner! Click the pic for more info and to enter. (ends March 17)

WHEW!!! That's it that I'm aware of, if I've missed any please let me know!

Sparkle and Shine!

There are a bunch of giveaways happening NOW!

I hope to win them ALL Bwahahahaha!!!

But, in case you want a chance at 'em...here they are in no particular order: (just click the blog name to go straight to the giveaway!)

Konadomania is celebrating 300 followers by giving away a bunch of Konad Stuffs! (fave Konad for ME was feb 2, 2010 post)

Lacquerized is celebrating 250 followers and giving away two prizes! YOU get to pick the one you're playing like best. :) (I like the first set myself.)

Romika's Nails is celebrating 100 followers with manicure essentials and some lovely lacquers too!

Concrete and Nail Polish is having a follower appreciation giveaway with lot's of great stuffs!

Painted Lady Fingers is giving away some Man Glaze and Man Glaze Swag.

And Lacquer Laine is having a giveaway for some Skin MD sheilding lotion.

I think I'm missing a few...I'll keep looking. Some of these end soon, so get on over there!

Cute Blog Tag!

Awww! I got a tag from GildedAngel of Naive Nails! How cute and cool is that? Thank you GildedAngel! The only rule in this tag is to tag 5 other cute blogs!

So I tag:

Emerald Sparkled
Tropical Mind
What Katie Did Her Polish
The Manicured Manatee so much more hilarity than cute, but I love this blog!
and.....
um....
alizarine claws because her stash helps me feel sane again...

Truth be told, I love every single one of the blogs on my blog roll. I get inspired and laugh and cry with all of them. I envy some of them for their talent, some for their youthful hands, some for their photography skills, some for their writing skills, some for their way with color. I love them all and I am grateful to have been welcomed into this community of nail nuts. (We truly ARE insane and I'm glad to have found each and every one of my fellow lacquer lunatics!)

True story: On the way home tonight, I stopped in at CVS to pick up some V-Day candy on sale..."Look what you got me for me for V-day babe!" and to pick up the other four Milani Holos. I am a Holo whore I tell you! I walked out of CVS with the four holos, a couple neons and then the NYC's were on sale so I grabbed two of those. I also placed 3, yes 3 orders on line between yesterday and today.

I need to purchase another layer for my storage box and some plastic inserts for them. The cardboard ones are holding up fine, but I want the plastic because they'll take up less space (more polish can fit!) and it will look nicer. I swatched 15 colors tonight before settling on Zoya's Harley for my manicure and found a few "close-enough" dupes to put some up for swap...or whatever. I gotta go no buy for a bit, have a few more giveaways and save my money up to increase my Nubar collex. I really love Nubar, and Nfu Oh, and Essie and China Glaze, and OPI and Zoya and...see what I mean? I don't have room for this. I've gotta be selective, but all your blogs are creating lemming after lemming for me...I gotta get Gosh, RBL, Ilamasqua, Chanel, Dior, Nars, and so many others on my hands! (and I know you can all relate to this.) So THIS is why you all have that "lemming list" on your blogs.

I have no where to put a helmer! More details about why on my other blog which is seriously neglected due to this new addiction of mine.

I need to visit MUA more often and get swappin!

Til next time, wishing you color, sparkle and shine!

Tropical Mind

One of my fellow "Nail Polish Collectors" on Facebook, (yes,there is a group for all of us there, come join us!) and she's really the group admin, the one who started it all there, well she has a wonderful blog.

Tropical Mind is about all kinds of girlie stuffs! From clothing finds, to cute new cars, makeup, music, and SHOES! I'm looking forward to her posting the latest in Flip Flops for the rest of us...and all things Sandal for the spring/summer months.

Check out her blog and see if you like it as much as I do. Click HERE.

And when your done there, come on over to Facebook and join the Nail Polish Collectors group.

See you there!
Wishing you all Color, sparkle, shimmer and shine!